{"id":349989,"date":"2024-09-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=349989"},"modified":"2024-09-05T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:40:23","slug":"how-it-fell-to-a-cop-to-turn-around-haryanas-bleeding-power-discoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/how-it-fell-to-a-cop-to-turn-around-haryanas-bleeding-power-discoms\/","title":{"rendered":"How it fell to a cop to turn around Haryana\u2019s bleeding power discoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shatrujeet Kapur of the 1990 batch officer of the Indian Police Service, has been in the forefront\u00a0 in key\u00a0 positions. He has served in the UN\u00a0Peacekeeping\u00a0 Mission in Kosova, and also\u00a0 in the\u00a0 Central\u00a0 Bureau of\u00a0 Investigation and has held\u00a0 several\u00a0 prominent\u00a0 positions in Haryana. In fact, he currently heads the Haryana police, as its Director General of Police.This book authored by him, focuses on his role as the chief of the two power distribution companies in the state of\u00a0 Haryana. During his tenure as CMD, from 2016 to 2021, he came up with several significant reforms. When he took over as CMD towards the end of 2016, the combined accumulated losses of the two companies were over INR 29,000 crores. By the time he left the Discoms towards the end of 2020-21, the financial gains stood at INR 15,966 crores!\u2026A Book Review by Humra Quraishi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mind you, there were not just financial gains but much more, in terms of better access to electricity, especially in rural areas, upgradation of the power distribution, continuity and enhanced reliability of the power supply\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And  if one were ask  how  did  he  manage to  bring about these significant changes, it gets significant to  point out that he was  determined to completely and completely weed out and banish corruption. He took every possible measure, which he details in the book, to halt corruption. Together with that he also details, \u201cWe worked out fresh HR practices, automated the transfers and  placements, incentivised initiative and decentralized  power to usher in a sea change in not  just the  performance but also the culture of the two Discoms. Had this not been done, the changes and improvements would have been  piecemeal and unsustainable. My vision was clear: for change to be effective, it had to be deep and sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, these words of  the  veteran police  officer, Julio Ribeiro, for  Shatrujeet Kapur and  his book
seem just very  apt: \u201cGreat  management  lessons for  leaders  and  managers, not  just in the  power  sector –   a must read for  its  honesty and  page-turning quality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shatrujeet Kapur of the 1990 batch officer of the Indian Police Service, has been in the forefront\u00a0 in key\u00a0 positions. He has served in the UN\u00a0Peacekeeping\u00a0 Mission in Kosova, and also\u00a0 in the\u00a0 Central\u00a0 Bureau of\u00a0 Investigation and has held\u00a0 several\u00a0 prominent\u00a0 positions in Haryana. In fact, he currently heads the Haryana police, as its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2205],"tags":[17128,15999,17127,18508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350012,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349989\/revisions\/350012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/349990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}